Medical workers rally against planned demolition of Republican Hospital

Doctors at Tbilisi Republican Hospital are currently engaged in a protest rally, advocating for the cessation of the government plans to demolish the hospital building.

Despite an initial order for demolition issued in March of the preceding year, the collective efforts of medical personnel in staging protests led to a temporary postponement of the decision, they claimed with the press. 

In their attempt to seek assistance, the doctors noted they had sent a letter to Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party and the former prime minister, seeking intervention. However, the doctors added they had not received a response so far, raising suspicions that their plea may not have reached Ivanishvili, who at the end of the last year returned to politics as the honorary chair of the GD. The doctors asserted that their protest was not driven by a desire for compensation but rather by a shared objective to preserve the Republican Hospital, preventing its impending demolition.

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday said a “modern, international-standard” state clinic would be built on the base of the hospital.